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Is this camera considered a SLR?
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Hopefully they will eventually get the EVFs to the quality of the SLR viewfinder. You get a lot more information from an EVF. If it looks good in the EVF it will likely be a good picture. And you get live histograms and setting information. They are looked down on by the SLR crowd because of the poor quality, but if they can ever get equivalent quality EVFs will replace straight optical finders in all digital cameras. |
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I think slipe's comments are right on the money. I would add that in general conversation, the term "slr"is also used to denotethe type of camera where one can change lenses. The FZ20 does not do this.
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That's a great post, Slipe, interesting you bring that up. I don't mean to hijack the thread, but for a couple years now the screens made from OLED have been trumpeted, though never materialized for large-scale operations. They are used in some car stereo heads and mobile phones/PDA's with success though. For those who don't know, what's so special about OLED is that the organic material glows in itself instead of relying on a backlight that LCD's require. This means more consistent image quality, infinite viewing angles, instant pixel response, and no worry of backlight consumption. They are also cheaper to produce than LCD panels. The downside is that supposedly they are having a hard time getting large screens to have a useful life beyond a few thousand hours last I knew. Back to EVF's though, your post has me pondering why OLED isn't utilized for EVF's, seems like a perfect application for OLED in its current form. It may be that it's more difficult to get the same kind of resolution as we can with LCD's now that LCD technology is mature. I'm thinking with half a megapixel to a meg in an OLED would make for a killer EVF :G
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OLEDs evidently use more power that standard back-lit LEDs in their current state of development. How much more and whether that would be significant in a one square inch display I don't know. Quote:
I think the "reflex" refers to reflecting the image with a mirror to change its path for display. They also had twin lens reflex cameras in medium format that reflected the image from horizontal to vertical so you could view it from the top of the camera. The mirror didn't move out of the way because there was a second lens for the film exposure. Since they were also called "reflex" I have always assumed it refers to altering the viewfinder path with a mirror or prism. |
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Olympus pioneered the term "ZLR" for those IS series of 35mm cameras with the fixed zoom lens. ZLR = Zoom lens reflex.
Today it is generally accepted that if a camera is called an SLR that it has a mirror and pentaprism and interchangeable lenses. Most marketing folks todayuse the term "SLR-like" for the cameras that use an EVF. |
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